[HTML][HTML] Windblown sand along railway infrastructures: A review of challenges and mitigation measures

L Bruno, M Horvat, L Raffaele - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2018 - Elsevier
The engineering interest about windblown sand is dictated by the harmful interactions
between sand and a number of human infrastructures in arid environments. Particularly, the …

Effects of soil characteristics on moisture evaporation

N An, CS Tang, SK Xu, XP Gong, B Shi, HI Inyang - Engineering geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Evaporation of water from soils is a three-stage process that has great significance in stress
development in exposed geotechnical structures, generation of dusts that can cause …

Canopy effect: water vapor transmission in frozen soils with impermeable surface

B Hou, H Jin, G Flerchinger, J Lv, H He - Acta Geotechnica, 2023 - Springer
Frozen ground covers vast areas worldwide and about 75% of the land area in the Northern
Hemisphere undergoes seasonal freezing and thawing processes. It has been well …

Satellite time series data reveal interannual and seasonal spatiotemporal evapotranspiration patterns in China in response to effect factors

M Cheng, X Jiao, X Jin, B Li, K Liu, L Shi - Agricultural Water Management, 2021 - Elsevier
The spatiotemporal patterns of evapotranspiration (ET) are the basic problem of the
circulation of water resources. Several studies have reported the spatiotemporal patterns of …

Cyanobacteria and moss biocrusts increase evaporation by regulating surface soil moisture and temperature on the northern Loess Plateau, China

S Li, B Xiao - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil evaporation is a three-stage process and plays a vital role in soil physical, chemical,
and biological processes, as well as global climate change. As an important living skin …

Deep machine learning-based water level prediction model for Colombo flood detention area

M Herath, T Jayathilaka, Y Hoshino, U Rathnayake - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Machine learning has already been proven as a powerful state-of-the-art technique for many
non-linear applications, including environmental changes and climate predictions. Wetlands …

Ecological factors influencing the occurrence of macrofungi from eastern mountainous areas to the central plains of Jilin province, China

JJ Hu, GP Zhao, YL Tuo, ZX Qi, L Yue, B Zhang, Y Li - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Macrofungi are essential in forest ecological functioning. Their distribution and diversity are
primarily impacted by vegetation, topography, and environmental factors, such as …

Effects of water collection and mulching combinations on water infiltration and consumption in a semiarid rainfed orchard

H Li, X Zhao, X Gao, K Ren, P Wu - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil water and its efficient use are critical to sustainable productivity of rainfed orchards
under the context of climate change in water-limited areas. Here, we combined micro …

Comparison of thermal and chemical enhanced recovery of DNAPL in saturated porous media: 2D tank pumping experiments and two-phase flow modelling

S Colombano, H Davarzani, ED Van Hullebusch… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pumping experiments were performed in a 2D tank in order to estimate the recovery yield of
pure heavy chlorinated organic compounds (DNAPL; dense non-aqueous phase liquids) by …

Effects of meteorological variables and substrate moisture on evapotranspiration and thermal performance of a green roof in a subtropical climate

PY Chen - Ecological Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This study analyzed the correlations between the meteorological/substrate-moisture
variables and the evapotranspiration (ET) to improve the understanding of the factors …